Lexis-Nexis is not a fancy car or a hair care product. It is the name of a helpful database on the Sherrod Library’s home page.
You can use Lexis-Nexis to find full-text newspaper articles, as well as business, medical, legal and reference articles and resources.
Go to the library’s home page at http://sherrod.etsu.edu and select the box that says find articles. Choose L from the alphabet listing that appears. Bam! — there will be a link to Lexis-Nexis and you simply click on that.
And yes, you can do all of this from home or from anywhere in the world. If you’re off campus, the computer will ask you for a username and password. That’s your ETSU z-name (without the @imail.etsu.edu suffix) and that tiny number that starts with 163 at the bottom of your ID card.
So what’s Lexis-Nexis good for? Simply put, it has full-text resources on many topics, including some (most notably legal research) where we didn’t have extensive full text resources before. Increasing full-text access to articles on your computer screen — that’s what we’re about!
There are many newspapers covered here and they are all full text. So the next time your professor asks for newspaper articles be sure to use Lexis-Nexis.
Also, if you are researching law cases or need legal journal articles, you have come to the right place. You can search for information about individual cases — even nonfamous ones.
Lexis-Nexis also covers a wide selection of academic legal journals as well.
Need to look up government regulations, the text of actual laws or even patents? You can do that here too! Whew!
Business students, nursing majors and medical school students will also find Lexis-Nexis helpful. The complete content of your journal articles will be there on the screen, making your life easier.
We should really point out that what you’re looking at on the screen is content identical to a real-life copy of the journal or newspaper.
So if your professor insists on you Xeroxing the physical journal, you might gently refer her to this article. Well, have you read Epic of Gilgamesh? You know, Gilgamesh has a hairy wild man named Enkidu for his best friend and they have many adventures.
Love goddess Ishtar is in the book too. It takes place it what is now Iraq. The call number is PJ3771.G5 E5 1984 and it’s located on the third floor of the library.
With all the troubling brewing in Iraq, it’s worth reading about the fascinating and long history of civilization in that part of the world.

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